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While Harvard improved its play after a timeout, it couldn’t win consecutive points or steal back momentum. Finally, Witkofsky, who pestered the Crimson all night at the net, finished off the match with his 31st kill, sending the Crimson back to Cambridge on a disappointing note...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Rallies, But Can’t Complete Comeback | 2/1/2010 | See Source »

...recent morning, a crowd filled a downtown Detroit courtroom for the sentencing of a 19-year-old ninth-grade dropout caught breaking into a public school, apparently to steal computers. The hearing's main attraction was not the guilty man or the judge but Robert Bobb, the state-appointed emergency financial manager of Detroit's public schools. In the last six months of 2009, Bobb told the court, nearly 500 computers were stolen from schools, costing his system some $600,000. "The Detroit public-school system isn't an electronics store," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Robert Bobb Fix Detroit's Public Schools? | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...game marked a stark contrast to the Crimson’s Ivy opener, in which Hagedorn and Rutzen combined for four points and four rebounds. On Thursday in Tallahassee, Hagedorn filled out her stat line with three rebounds, two assists, and a steal, while Rutzen bolstered her six rebounds with two points and three steals—the most of any player on the night...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock | Title: Freshmen Shine In Lopsided Road Loss | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...unscrupulous candidates in Philippines politics, murder has long been the ultimate political tool for eliminating rivals to steal a win at the polls. "This is especially so at the level of local rather than national politics," says Benito Lim, a political science professor at the University of the Philippines, who believes the baleful tradition of "guns, goons and gold" at elections will be hard to uproot. Still, Comelec, the national election commission, hopes the tough gun ban (the early arrests have been widely publicized in the local media) will reduce the potential for violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Philippines Gun Ban Kicks Off Amid Campaign Violence | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

Berry finished with 16 points, five rebounds, seven assists and a steal...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sweeps Massachusetts Teams with Win over Minutewomen | 1/7/2010 | See Source »

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